Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. When I think back on the holidays I've been on, … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Read on Holiday
Private investigator Sadie Levesque specialises in finding missing teenagers, and so when sixteen-year-old Adrianna Clark goes missing on the Isle of Mull, far off the coast of Scotland, Sadie is brought in by the family to find their daughter. Sadie is good at what she does, having spent years honing in her skills of tracking … Continue reading Book Review of ‘The Last Girl to Die’ by Helen Fields
I'm kicking off Spooky Season with this deliciously Gothic tale of creepy wooden 'companions' who cause mayhem across the centuries. Trigger warnings: Infant mortality, Murder, Violence, Fire Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the … Continue reading Book Review of ‘The Silent Companions’ by Laura Purcell
Spooky Season is upon us and I'm going all out this year. I'm looking to read a month of creepy, spooky horror and I'm looking for your recommendations. So far, I've read Laura Purcell's 'The Silent Companions' and I've just started listening to Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary'. I've never really explored the genre so I'm … Continue reading What are your Spooky Season reads?
THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART ...Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. … Continue reading Book Review of ‘The Skeleton Key’ by Erin Kelly
In honour of Black History Month, award-winning author Catherine Johnson recounts the early life of Olaudah Equiano. Born in what is now Nigeria in 1745, Equiano’s peaceful childhood was brought to an abrupt end when he was captured and enslaved aged 11. He spent much of the next ten years of his life at sea, … Continue reading Book Review of ‘Journey Back to Freedom: The Olaudah Equiano Story’ By Catherine Johnson
It's is 1994. Carrie Soto watches on as 17-year-old Nikki Chan meets Ingrid Cortez in the final of the US Open. As the game is won, Carrie Soto, winner of twenty Grand Slam titles, makes the life-changing decision to step out of retirement to defend her record. And just like that... Carrie Soto is back. … Continue reading Book Review of ‘Carrie Soto is Back’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In the interests of full disclosure, let me first state that I'm a HUGE fan of Crime Junkie, Ashley Flowers' award-winning true crime podcast. She's got a knack of telling you about a crime in such a way that you feel right at the centre of it. I went into this book knowing that she's … Continue reading Book Review of ‘All Good People Here’ by Ashley Flowers
A lovely warm hug of a novel.
Summary A good mother. Or a good liar? 17-year-old Lily is mama’s girl, mama’s doll. Every evening she pours Mama a glass of perfectly spoilt orange juice. She arranges her teddy bears on teh bed, just so. She reapplies the yellow make-up that Mama likes her to wear. But Mama’s love flies so close to … Continue reading Book Review of ‘Bad Fruit’ by Ella King
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